April 2018 Irish trip ( Day 2)

…and well pruned tree. It was clearly a chance sport and still has the odd green shoot or branch. Griselinia littoralis ‘Bantry Bay’ Griselinia littoralis ‘Bantry Bay’ Pittosporum eugenoides ‘Variegatum’…

17th September

…hybrids planted out today from Millais were as follows: – Rhododendron Veryan Bay – Rhododendron Loderi Helen – Rhododendron Loderi Pink Coral – Rhododendron Loderi Sir Edmund – Rhododendron campylocarpum…

13th June

…has germinated. Manglietia/Magnolia sapaensis 2021 – CHW The G7 leaders leave St Ives this evening. The owner of the Carbis Bay Hotel, for whom our landscape team have been working…

11th June

…on Wednesday at the Carbis Bay Hotel. A project which they started in January! Boris and Carrie arrived just before that. Working in a maximum security site with machine guns,…

10th February

…ready for potting. Our liner order A new bay in construction for our green waste compost. A new bay in construction A new rainwater collecting tank on the side of…

14th November

…‘Atropurpureum’ 2020 – CHW Yesterday at Burncoose where renovation work is progressing well.The new trade order loading and unloading bay. bay renovation work The herbaceous tunnel looks fantastic. herbaceous tunnel…

7th July

…cliffs at Alum Bay. Alum Bay, Isle of Wight 2003 – FJW (Handwritten note attached to Garden Book page) Quercus turneri, above Auklandii Garden: a challenged wisdom tells us that…

27th October

…spring when still dormant. magnolia seedlings A good saleable crop of Euonymus moupinensis for the nursery. Euonymus moupinensis Asia has rooted cuttings of Tom’s peculiar narrow leafed bay tree which…

29th March

…of Aesculus parviflora. Aesculus parviflora Dad’s Rhododendron ‘Red Centurion’ nearly full out. Rhododendron’Red Centurion’ The record Cornish plant of Laurus azorica has an attractive flower for a bay laurel. Laurus…

23rd November

…achievements in restoring Boconnoc House to its former glory are immense. My Aunt Veryan worked there for several years helping organise events in the house. Not long ago I attended…